The uninvited-guest problem at President Barack Obama’s recent White House state dinner strikes me as more than a mere security lapse. If we were living in a perfect world and no existential threat to the United States presented itself, a publicity-seeking party-crasher at such an event might be dismissed as a minor concern, even an [...]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — In the debate over terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and the threat they present to America’s communities, retired U.S. Air Force Col. Randall Larsen says we may stand in the way of our own safety. This happens, according to him, because we typically pose the wrong questions.
Instead of asking how to [...]

Stephen Sloan, the author of “Terrorism: The Present Threat in Context,” has worked for many years with the U.S. military on responding to and preventing terrorism. He discussed the investigation into an Army psychiatrist’s alleged rampage at Fort Hood with McClatchy-Tribune foreign-affairs columnist John C. Bersia.